Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACEPunishment follows close on crime.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Anger is brief madness
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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